Akin Euba

  Olatunji Akin Euba (28 Eprel 1935 - 14 Eprel 2020), bụ onye Naijiria na-ede egwu, ọkà n'egwú, na onye na-akpọ piano.

Ọrụ

[dezie | dezie ebe o si]

A mụrụ ya na 28 Eprel 1935 na Lagos, Nigeria, Akin Euba mụụrụ Arnold Cooke ihe osise na Trinity College of Music, London, na-enweta diplọma nke onye otu Trinity College London (Composition) na onye otu Trinity University London (Piano). E nyere ya Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship na 1962. Ọ natara nzere B.A. na MA na Mahadum California, Los Angeles, ebe ya na Mantle Hood, Charles Seeger, J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Klaus Wachsmann, na Roy Travis gụrụ akwụkwọ. O nwere Ph.D. na ethnomusicology na Mahadum Ghana, Legon (1974). Mgbe ọ nọ na Legon, Prọfesọ Nketia lekọtara ọrụ doctoral Euba, a na-akpọkwa akwụkwọ edemede ya "Dundun Music of the Yoruba".

Euba bụ prọfesọ na onye nduzi nke Centre for Cultural Studies na Mahadum Lagos, ma rụọkwa ọrụ dị ka onye isi nchọpụta na Mahadim Ife (nke bụzi Mahadum Obafemi Awolowo) na Naịjirịa. Ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onye isi egwu na Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation ruo afọ ise. Ọ bụ onye ọkà mmụta na-eme nchọpụta na onye na-ese ihe na IWALEWA House, ebe ọmụmụ Africa nke Mahadum Bayreuth na Germany n'etiti afọ 1986 na 1992. Ọ bụ Andrew Mellon Prọfesọ nke Egwú na Mahadum Pittsburgh n'etiti afọ 1993 na 2011 ma ruo mgbe ọ nwụrụ, ọ bụ Andrew W. Mellon Pròfesọ, Emeritus na egwu; onye guzobere na onye nduzi nke Centre for Intercultural Music Arts, London (nke e guzobere na 1989), na onye nduji emeritus nke Centre for intercultural Musicology na Churchill College, Mahadum Cambridge.

Mmasị ndị ọkà mmụta Euba gụnyere musicology na ethnomusicology nke ọdịbendị dị iche iche nke oge a. Ọ haziri symposia mgbe niile na egwu na Africa na Diaspora na Churchill College, Cambridge yana Central Conservatory of Music na Beijing. Ihe omume ndị a gosipụtara ndị na-ede egwu na ndị ọkà mmụta a ma ama dị ka J. H. Kwabena Nketia na Halim El-Dabh. Ya na Elekoto Ensemble ya, ọ kpọkọtara ndị egwu si Naijiria, China, India, Germany, Malta, na United States.

Ihe ndị o dere na-agụnye ngwakọta nke ihe ọdịnala ndị Afrịka (nke sitere n'agbụrụ nke ya, Ndị Yoruba) na Egwú oge ochie nke oge a. Ihe kachasị mma o dere bụ opera Chaka: An Opera in Two Chants (1970), nke na-agwakọta ụda olu na ọjà nke West Africa na usoro ụda iri na abụọ.

Euba nwụrụ [1] 14 Eprel 2020, izu abụọ tupu afọ 85 ya.

Ọrụ

[dezie | dezie ebe o si]
  • Abụ ọdịnala isii nke Yoruba, nke a haziri maka olu na piano
  • 1956 - Okwu Mmalite na Allegro, ndị egwú 
  • 1963 - Akụkụ ise maka English Horn na Piano maka Derek Bell 
  • 1964 - Foto anọ sitere na Oyo Calabashes 
  • 1964 - Ihe Ndị A Na-ahụ Maka Akwete, Piano 
  • 1967 - Morning, Noon, na Night, ndị na-agụ egwú, ndị na'agba egwú, na ngwá egwú Naijiria 
  • 1967 - Olurounbi (ma ọ bụ Olurombi), ọmụmụ Symphonic maka Orchestra 
  • 1970 (rev. 1999) - Chaka, Opera 
  • 1970 - Ice Cubes, ndị na-akụ egwú 
  • 1970 - Ihe nkiri sitere na ndụ ọdịnala, piano 
  • 1975 - Alatangana, ballet maka ndị na-agụ egwú, ndị na-agba egwú, na ngwá egwú Naijiria 
  • 1979 - Black Bethlehem, ndị na-agụ egwú, ndị na -agụ egwú na Naijiria, na ndị na-akụ egwú jazz 
  • 1987 - Wakar Duru: Ọmụmụ na African Pianism 1-3, piano 
  • 2003 - N'okpuru Rusumo Falls, olu, onye na-agba egwú, kayagum, ọjà, ịgbà, na piano (ihe odide: Olusola Oyeleye)  

Nkọwapụta

[dezie | dezie ebe o si]
  • 1989 - Piano Music nke Akin Euba, nke Peter Schmalfuss mere (gụnyere Scenes from Traditional Life na Wakar Duru: Studies in African Pianism)  
  • 1999 - Chaka: An Opera in Two Chants, site na uri Léopold Sédar Senghor.  Point Richmond, California, United States: Music Research Institute MRI-001CD.
  • 2005 - Towards an African Pianism: Anthology of Keyboard Music From Africa and the Diaspora.  Izu ohi 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States: A Bridge Across: Intercultural Composition, Performance, Musicology, Department of Music, University of Pittsburgh, ABA 001 CD.
  • 2005 - Towards an African Pianism: Anthology of Keyboard Music From Africa and the Diaspora.  Izu ohi 2. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States: A Bridge Across: Intercultural Composition, Performance, Musicology, Department of Music, University of Pittsburgh, ABA 002 CD.

Ihe odide

[dezie | dezie ebe o si]
  • [Ihe e dere n'ala ala peeji] "Music Adapts to a Changed World: A Leading Composer Looks at How Africa's Musical Traditions Have Expanded to Suit Contemporary Society". Africa Report, November 1970, pp. 24-27. 
  • [Ihe e dere n'ala ala peeji] "Yoruba Music in the Church: The Development of a Neo-African Art Among the Yoruba of Nigeria. " Na African Musicology: Current Trends: A Festschrift Presented to J. H. Kwabena Nketia, ed. J. C. DjeDje na W. G. Carter (Atlanta, Georgia), peeji nke 45-63. 

Ihe odide

[dezie | dezie ebe o si]

Ihe e dere n'ala ala peeji] "Yoruba Music in the Church: The Development of a Neo-African Art Among the Yoruba of Nigeria. " Na African Musicology: Current Trends: A Festschrift Presented to J. H. Kwabena Nketia, ed. J. C. DjeDje na W. G. Carter (Atlanta, Georgia), peeji nke 45-63. 


Olatunji Akin Euba (28 Eprel 1935 - 14 Eprel 2020), bụ onye Naijiria na-ede egwu, ọkà n'egwú, na onye na-akpọ piano

  1. ↑ Gregory Austin Nwakunor, "Akin Euba, the father of African pianism, dies at 84", The Guardian (Nigeria), 15 April 2020.
  • [Ihe e dere n'ala ala peeji] Akin Euba: Nkwupụta maka Ndụ na Egwú nke onye Naijiria na-ede egwu. Bayreuth, Germany: Bayreuth African Studies Series.
  • [Ihe e dere n'ala ala peeji] "African Pianism as an Intercultural Compositional Framework: A Study of the Piano Works of Akin Euba". Research in African Literatures 32 (2):153-174.

Njikọ mpụga

[dezie | dezie ebe o si]